“Sanborn contracted polio in his youth. He began playing saxophone on a physician’s advice to strengthen his weakened chest muscles and improve his breathing, instead of studying piano.”
It ain’t what they call rock and roll
There used to be a show, I think on NBC on Sunday nights that David Sanborn hosted, it played a lot of jazz performers, and he played with him. I was always a fan, bought a lot of his CDs, until he had Conway Twitty on. Conway was the perfect gentleman, and Sanborn was the biggest jerk I have ever seen. He was mocking Conway the whole way through in a way that he thought he was denigrating Conway, and Conway did not even know. I am sure Conway did know, he was just too much of a gentleman to say anything about it at the time. Never cared to listen to him after that.